Should I buy this dining room chandelier?

My aging eyes are requiring more light than what our current chandelier gives. (It can't be modified, and I don't want to add sconces, floor, or table lamps to this already crowded, small room.)

The chandelier below is on a great sale, has 9 bulbs instead of our current 3, and the will provide up light, down light, and won't cast the huge shadow our current light gives. Do you think this is the right size?

Patricia, The current light has a solid metal plate on top that covers the entire interior. The lights are mounted below this plate. This plate prevents any light from shining upwards, and a huge shadow of the plate is cast about 75% of the ceiling and down on some walls. Maybe the best way to imagine it is if you took a flush mount light and suspended it from a chain. That is essential what this is.

The center bowl of the new plate is open and has three 60 watt bulbs. I'm curious about where you imagine the light would be cast in the room and how. I'm no expert on this!

I also need more light to see at my age. That fixture won't do it. The shades are beige, not white and the glass bowl is darker, not clear or white. It will give soft, diffused dark golden light, not light that you can see with.

Hazel - Drats. Thank you for your insight on how much light this will give off. Do you think it would make a difference if I swap out the shades for white ones?

All nine of the bulbs in the new chandelier are 60 watts. We currently only have three 60 watts in the crystal chandelier. I have a bowl light like this minus the arms in another room and it seems to give off decent light but it is a white bowl.

I'm not sure what makes something LED compatible but we only buy vintage lighting and I suspect that they are wired for traditional bulbs, though I don't know. How interchangeable are they?

Yes, @HALLETT & Co. you got it, my ceiling is grey, the same color as the walls but only 50% the pigment. If after a new light is installed it still feels dark then I will have the room painted a lighter color. I have a thing about painting the ceiling the same color as the walls. I think I'd rather paint the whole room white than have just the ceiling white.

Dining room chandeliers are best not used as the main light source for the space. If it is bright enough to light up the room, it usually is uncomfortably bright for those seated at the table. I would add two recessed lights with slot or pinhole trims to light the table. As the source of the light is shielded, it will appear as if the chandelier is providing the light, even if it's dimmed to a comfortable level. It would also really emphasize the beautiful quarter-sawn white oak table.

The fact that the bowl has 3 60 watt bulbs is great - the fixture will provide quite a bit of uplight, which will bounce off of the ceiling and brighten the whole space.

@nexp, I hear you with recessed lighting. Our house is original plaster and lathe from 1851 so projects such as that are a whole lot of work that often lead to cracks and big patches and it is like pulling the thread on a sweater and watching it unravel. After 7 years in this house, which I love, I have learned to work with the path of least resistance as my first choice.

I went ahead and made the purchase of the chandelier because I new the sale price wasn't going to last long. I may need to change or remove shades, paint, who knows.

Now to figure out what to do with the crystal chandelier I loved so much! It was our first purchase when we bought this house, which had Ikea lighting throughout, including one of the silver medusa Ikea fixtures in the dining room. Maybe I will put this into storage in our basement. Don't think I can part with it yet.